All Souls Commemoration

Sunday, November 3rd at 10:00 am

Garden Memorial Service

A Commemoration of our Faithfully Departed parishioners and family members will be observed in the Mary Ellen Hall Prayer Garden at 10:15 am.

This will be a time of prayer and remembrance. The Parish Necrology will be read, and the Memorial Tree stones will be blessed. After the service, the Memorial Stones will be placed at each Memorial Tree, followed by a period of reflective silence.

The names of faithfully departed family members can be submitted below as follows: FIRST MIDDLE LAST name.

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A religious painting depicting a large group of saints and biblical figures with halos, dressed in colorful robes, standing densely packed.
A woman with long dark hair and a child with reddish-brown braided hair are kneeling by a grave marker in a wooded area. The woman is holding a yellow flower wreath and the child is hugging her. The scene is somber, and the background shows trees and a cloudy sky.

All Souls Day

All Souls Day – also known as the ‘Commemoration of the Faithful Departed’, has been observed, in some form and on different dates, since the seventh century in the Western Church and the ninth century in the Eastern Church. On All Souls Day, the Church invites us to remember our departed loved ones in prayer to express our love and continued concern for their spiritual growth in Christ. As the biblical scholar and Anglican bishop, N.T. Wright puts it, ‘I see no reason why we should not pray for and with the dead… Love passes into prayer; we still love them; why not hold them, in that love, before God?’